Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 65 was the most expensive viso lens I bought: more than the 200 and 280 together and more than 400 or 560 separately if you split the price of the televit. I think there is a 180 that's rare and worth a buck or two. But the 65 has been tricky to find for a while, particularly the later black version. On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 7:31 pm, Leonard Taupier wrote: > Mark, > > I guess the word hasn't gotten around yet. KEH is selling a black 65mm > for $725 (EX+) and a silver one for $364 (BGN). > > I'd love to see somebody make a Visoflex IV. But the prism alone has > to be worth $200. I was given an old Viso I that was so bad you > couldn't see through it. So I took it apart. The prism had 50 years > worth of dust on it. Cleaned it up like new. Perfect. But holding the > raw prism in your hand was like holding the Hope diamond. A real thing > of beauty. > > I'll bet if we wanted we could have everything made pretty cheap in > China. I'll bet that's Leica's next step though. > > Len > > > On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Its been my position for a few months now that M8 use will revitalize >> the >> Viso. Or re visolize the Vito. >> >> Right now there's a ton of them out there selling for practically >> nothing. >> You buy one they throw in a bellows and a 65 just because they're >> sick of >> looking at it. >> Would be nice to think that in the end there'd not be enough to go >> around.. >> All the burgeoning Leica digital macro and long tele Viso enthusiasts >> with >> everything in-between and that they'd have to reintroduce them. Make >> more >> new. Or some third party guy (a great name for an entrepreneurial >> enterprise) would come along and start cranking them out with CNC. >> Computer Numerical Control, he said non acronymously. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNC >> >> My favorite companies seem to be involved with this processs. Our own >> Tom >> A's One-Off Rapidwinder's and Softies. >> The Kirk and Really Right Stuff people we were talking about over the >> weakened. >> Scotty INC. >> Not really all that great stuff but for less money and what do you >> want egg >> in your beer INC. >> Better known as >> >> Really Wrong Stuff. >> >> But we wouldn't really go to those guys anyway. (stick to top of list) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Some Third Party Guy >> Mark Rabiner >> >> New York, NY >> 40?47'59.79"N >> 73?57'32.37"W >> >> markrabiner.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -rei